With outbreaks of measles and bird flu making headlines, now is a great time for healthcare organizations to take a hard look at preparedness and identify risk areas to help better understand transmission and take steps to make sure they can identify and appropriately manage these and other contagious diseases.
The challenge here is twofold: first, the amount of data wearable technology generates is vast and overwhelming; and second, noisy signals from devices such as ECGs can result in unusable information, misinterpreted data, and lost time and effort cleaning up the signal and digging out the most relevant and accurate information.
Healthcare CIOs working on a strategy to improve health outcomes in underserved populations would do well to check out New York, which is investing $500 million in a new program addressing social determinants of health.
On episode 110 of PSQH: The Podcast, Dr. Juan Maldonado, a Texas-based family medicine specialist, talks about his efforts to track medication adherence.
In this August 21 webinar, Erin Langmead, MBA, MSN, RN-BC, and Cassandra E. Tyransky, RN, BSN, CCRN, of WellSpan Health, will explain how the Pennsylvania-based health system used a smart hospital platform powered by artificial intelligence to reduce provider burden, increase patient and nurse satisfaction, and improve financial results. Register now to save your spot!
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